Patents by Inventor Vidar Vikjord
Vidar Vikjord has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11657060Abstract: An analysis application utilizes interactivity signals to generate relationships and promote content. One or more interactivity applications, such as a social networking application, are queried to retrieve interactivity signals. Interactivity signals include an interaction pattern that indicates a relationship between a user and relations of the user. A relationship graph is constructed based on the interactivity signals. Content associated with a user is promoted based on the relationship graph. A weight of the interactivity signals is adjusted to improve a ranking of the relationship graph and a ranking of the content.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Hakon Brugard, Rune Devik, Stein Arild Jakobsen, Roger Hansen, Michael Taylor, Magnus Mortensen, Bjornstein Lilleby, Fredrik Holm, Erlend Jensen, Torbjorn Helvik, Vidar Vikjord
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Patent number: 11620299Abstract: An analysis application utilizes interactivity signals to generate relationships and promote content. One or more interactivity applications, such as a social networking application, are queried to retrieve interactivity signals. Interactivity signals include an interaction pattern that indicates a relationship between a user and relations of the user. A relationship graph is constructed based on the interactivity signals. Content associated with a user is promoted based on the relationship graph. A weight of the interactivity signals is adjusted to improve a ranking of the relationship graph and a ranking of the content.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Hakon Brugard, Rune Devik, Stein Arild Jakobsen, Roger Hansen, Michael Taylor, Magnus Mortensen, Bjornstein Lilleby, Fredrik Holm, Erlend Jensen, Torbjorn Helvik, Vidar Vikjord
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Patent number: 11586642Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Michael James Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Vidar Vikjord, Viral Shah, Ashok Kuppusamy, Bjørnstein Lilleby
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Publication number: 20210263917Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Torbjørn HELVIK, Michael James TAYLOR, Vishwa VINAY, Vidar VIKJORD, Viral SHAH, Ashok KUPPUSAMY, Bjørnstein LILLEBY
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Patent number: 11030208Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Michael James Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Vidar Vikjord, Viral Shah, Ashok Kuppusamy, Bjørnstein Lilleby
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Publication number: 20200358864Abstract: An information feed is provided that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to a user. The information feed may be updated with new information items each time the feed is accessed by the user. Information not surfaced to the user in the feed may be accessed by the user via one or more other means, but only those items having a sufficient importance to the user are surfaced in the feed. Items in the feed are sorted by order of importance or relevance to the user. When new items are added to the feed, they are sorted relative to each other, but are displayed separately from previous groupings of items added to the feed. Items may be reposted to different positions in the feed, and items may be manually removed from the feed if desired.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Johan Idivuoma, Vidar Vikjord, Joshua Stickler, Bjørnstein Lilleby
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Patent number: 10757201Abstract: An information feed is provided that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to a user. The information feed may be updated with new information items each time the feed is accessed by the user. Information not surfaced to the user in the feed may be accessed by the user via one or more other means, but only those items having a sufficient importance to the user are surfaced in the feed. Items in the feed are sorted by order of importance or relevance to the user. When new items are added to the feed, they are sorted relative to each other, but are displayed separately from previous groupings of items added to the feed. Items may be reposted to different positions in the feed, and items may be manually removed from the feed if desired.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2014Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Johan Idivuoma, Vidar Vikjord, Joshua Stickler, Bjørnstein Lilleby
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Publication number: 20180349452Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Michael James Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Vidar Vikjord, Viral Shah, Ashok Kuppusamy, Bjørnstein Lilleby
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Patent number: 10061826Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.Inventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Michael James Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Vidar Vikjord, Viral Shah, Ashok Kuppusamy, Bjørnstein Lilleby, Jr.
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Publication number: 20170269798Abstract: Relevant content can be surfaced via user interfaces presented via devices based at least partly on determining the relevant content from interactions between user(s), container(s), and/or container element(s). Techniques described herein include accessing data associated with interactions between a user and content (e.g., containers and container elements) associated with a collaborative computing environment. Based at least partly on the data, relationships between the user, container(s), and/or container element(s), and weights corresponding to individual relationships of the relationships can be determined. Techniques described herein include determining at least a portion of the content that is relevant to the user based at least partly on the weights and generating a content page associated with the collaborative computing environment configured with functionality to surface at least the portion of the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2016Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Dmitriy Meyerzon, David M. Cohen, Bjornstein Lilleby, Aninda Ray, Yauhen Shnitko, Vidya Srinivasan, Michael Taylor, Vidar Vikjord, Nikita Voronkov
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Publication number: 20160070764Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.Inventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Michael James Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Vidar Vikjord, Viral Shah, Ashok Kuppusamy, Bjørnstein Lilleby, JR.
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Publication number: 20150249715Abstract: An information feed is provided that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to a user. The information feed may be updated with new information items each time the feed is accessed by the user. Information not surfaced to the user in the feed may be accessed by the user via one or more other means, but only those items having a sufficient importance to the user are surfaced in the feed. Items in the feed are sorted by order of importance or relevance to the user. When new items are added to the feed, they are sorted relative to each other, but are displayed separately from previous groupings of items added to the feed. Items may be reposted to different positions in the feed, and items may be manually removed from the feed if desired.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2014Publication date: September 3, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Johan Idivuoma, Vidar Vikjord, Joshua Stickler, Bjørnstein Lilleby
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Publication number: 20150242473Abstract: An analysis application utilizes interactivity signals to generate relationships and promote content. One or more interactivity applications, such as a social networking application, are queried to retrieve interactivity signals. Interactivity signals include an interaction pattern that indicates a relationship between a user and relations of the user. A relationship graph is constructed based on the interactivity signals. Content associated with a user is promoted based on the relationship graph. A weight of the interactivity signals is adjusted to improve a ranking of the relationship graph and a ranking of the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Hakon Brugard, Rune Devik, Stein Arild Jakobsen, Roger Hansen, Michael Taylor, Magnus Mortensen, Bjornstein Lilleby, Fredrik Holm, Erlend Jensen, Torbjorn Helvik, Vidar Vikjord